Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year - Publications - Faculty & Research

July 2003
Case

De La Salle Academy

Brother Brian Carty, headmaster and founder of De La Salle Academy, a private school for academically talented, economically disadvantaged children in grades six to eight in New York City, is scheduled to meet with the school's board of directors to discuss how the... View Details

Keywords: Middle School Education; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Organizational Design; Management Succession; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Education Industry

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Find at Harvard

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

night while sheltering at home: A French Village. Its 72 episodes across 7 seasons (one for each year between 1940-1946) tell a story of collaboration and resistance under the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

Michael S. Kaufman

A Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School, Michael co-developed and teaches a second year MBA course, “Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry.”

A founder and partner of Positive Strategy LLC, a management/strategy consulting... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World

president, finance and administration, of the Preco Corporation, a privately held paper manufacturer. In 1981, he returned to the School to lead research and teaching in View Details

May 2012 (Revised January 2013)
Case

Wikipedia: Project Esperanza

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Andreea Gorbatai and Tiona Zuzul

In October 2006, Wikipedia was the largest volunteer-run on-line encyclopedia which could be freely read and edited by anyone with internet access. Within almost six years of its founding in 2001, the project had attracted hundreds of thousands of editors who had... View Details

Keywords: Web-enabled Application; Internet; Information Publishing; Social and Collaborative Networks; Groups and Teams; Publishing Industry; United States

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Educators

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18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

Dream Challenge (involving experts as solvers), we believe this work is unique in that it specifically recruited non-domain experts via the Topcoder platform. Lagace: How did you design and carry out the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

04 Aug 2015
News

Brazil Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

professional interests. The website includes hundreds of stories that highlight the impact of HBS alumni and faculty in organizations and View Details

Robert S. Kaplan

Robert S. Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he... View Details

Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry

09 Nov 2017
News

Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress

Rye Barcott (MBA/MPA 2009) Rye Barcott (MBA/MPA 2009) “You don’t ask the guy next to you in your fighting hole what his political affiliation is,” Rye Barcott says. He should know. Barcott (MBA/MPA 2009) served five View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

18 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

When It Comes to Climate Regulation, Energy Companies Take a More Nuanced View

Common wisdom holds that oil and gas companies, electric utilities, and other industries known for their large carbon emissions generally oppose clean energy policies. Now, a study of corporate advocacy spanning 30 years reveals that many companies are more flexible... View Details

Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Utilities

01 Oct 1996
News

The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson

president and served for one year on the School's faculty. There's a lot of talk these days about corporate responsibility. What are a company's obligations to its... View Details

21 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

Operations Management Unit. “We are now able to work on all these rich new sources of visual data.” In a forthcoming paper in the Strategic Management Journal, Machine Learning Approaches to Facial and Text... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Feb 2015
News

Florida Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

impact of HBS alumni and faculty in organizations and communities around the world. The effort to engage alumni began in Boston on April 26, 2014... View Details

Clubs

Africa Business Club

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

small, incremental steps," said Upton. "The same holds true for information technology." In the wake of the Internet and advances in IT have come a host View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

workday. Perhaps most tragically, social distancing has halted many in-person communal grieving rituals like wakes and funerals, adding to the sorrow of people mourning loved... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

13 Oct 2015
Blog Post

LGBTSA Spotlight: Alterrell Mills

accounting: fast-paced, fully immersive, and case-based. Why did you decide to get involved with the LGBT Student Association? As a member of the black and LGBT community, I... View Details

13 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

in the family affairs of its most senior executives, family or not. Akfen Holding, founded 50 years after Koç in Ankara, holds a variety of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 2022
Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

October 11 is National Coming Out Day (NCOD) and HBS will be participating in events that celebrate the LGBTQ+ community throughout October as part of View Details

Web

3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog

examines 3 recently developed ‘godlike technologies’ - artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and synthetic biology- that have passed commercial viability and are on-track to change the foundations View Details

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